Ultra-Thin And Hybrid HDDs Provide Options For Mobile Devices At the 2013 Computex Conference in Taiwan Seagate joined Western Digital with a 5-mm thick 2.5-inch 500 GB hard disk drive. These HDDs are thinner than conventional 2.5-inch HDDs for notebook computers, which are 7-mm and 9.5-mm thickness. At a suggested selling price of $89 the Seagate ultra-thin drive offers storage capacity at $0.18/GB, more than 3X less expensive than a solid state drive ...
June 11, 2013 - Forbes